- 左 Zǔo: 左 Zuo3: surname Zuo左 zǔo: 左 zuo3: left; the Left (politics); east; unorthodox; queer; wrong; differing; opposite
- 庄 zhuāng: 庄 zhuang1: farmstead; village; manor; place of business; banker (in a gambling game); grave or solemn; holdings of a landlord (in imperial China)庄 Zhuāng: 庄 Zhuang1: surname Zhuang
- 班 Bān: 班 Ban1: surname Ban班 bān: 班 ban1: team; class; grade; (military) squad; work shift; classifier for groups of people and scheduled transport vehicles
- Zuo Zhuan or Tsochuan, Mr Zuo's Annals or Mr Zuo's commentary on 春秋[Chun1 qiu1], early history c. 400 BC attributed to famous blind historian Zuo Qiuming 左丘明[Zuo3 Qiu1 ming2]
- author; writer
- to be higher (than the stated amount) by ...
- another person; sb else; other people
- one head; a head full of sth; one end (of a stick); one side; headlong; directly; rapidly; simultaneously
- work (of art); opus; CL:部[bu4],篇[pian1]
- to create; to produce; to write; a creative work; a creation
- fountainhead; well-spring; water source; fig. origin
- to limit; to confine; to restrict sth within set boundaries
- aforementioned; above-mentioned
- have both
- Zhuge Liang (181–234), military leader and prime minister of Shu Han 蜀漢|蜀汉[Shu3 Han4] during the Three Kingdoms period; the main hero of the fictional Romance of Three Kingdoms 三國演義|三国演义[San1 guo2 Yan3 yi4], where he is portrayed as a sage and military genius; (fig.) a mastermind
- 陆 Lù: 陆 Lu4: surname Lu陆 lìu: 陆 liu4: six (banker's anti-fraud numeral)陆 lù: 陆 lu4: (bound form) land (as opposed to the sea)
- gifts to superiors
- Fan Zhongyan (989–1052), Song dynasty scholar and politician, author of On Yueyang Tower 岳陽樓記|岳阳楼记[Yue4 yang2 Lou2 Ji4]
- Sima Guang (1019-1086), politician and historian of Northern Song, author of Comprehensive Mirror for aid in Government 資治通鑒|资治通鉴
- statesman; politician; CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4],名[ming2]
- Zhou Dunyi (1017-1073), Song dynasty neo-Confucian scholar
- Cheng Yi (1033-1107), Song neo-Confucian scholar
- Cheng Hao (1032-1085), Song neo-Confucian scholar
- Zhu Xi or Chu Hsi (1130-1200), also known as Master Zhu 朱子[Zhu1 zi3], Song dynasty Confucian writer and propagandist, founder of neo-Confucianism
- (tree)
- nobleman; person of noble character
- later generations
- culture; civilization; cultural; CL:個|个[ge4],種|种[zhong3]
- direction; strike (i.e. angle of inclination in geology); inclination; trend; to move towards; to head for
- to select; to pick; choice; option; alternative
- 理学 lǐ xué: 理学 li3 xue2: science理学 Lǐ xué: 理学 Li3 xue2: School of Principle; Neo-Confucian Rationalistic School (from Song to mid-Qing times, c. 1000-1750, typified by the teachings of Cheng Hao 程顥|程颢[Cheng2 Hao4], Cheng Yi 程頤|程颐[Cheng2 Yi2] and Zhu Xi 朱熹[Zhu1 xi1])
- trend; tendency; orientation
- surname Song; the Song dynasty (960–1279); Song of the Southern Dynasties (420–479) 南朝宋[Nan2 chao2 Song4]
- harmonious; to mediate; to reconcile; mediation; to compromise; to mix; to blend; blended; to season; seasoning; to placate
- central point; in one's thoughts; in one's heart
- 分量 fèn liàng: 分量 fen4 liang4: (food) portion size分量 fēn liàng: 分量 fen1 liang4: (vector) component分量 fèn liang: 分量 fen4 liang5: quantity; weight; measure; (fig.) weight (importance, prestige, authority etc); (of written material) density
- Liu Zongyuan (773-819), Tang essayist and poet, advocate of the classical writing 古文運動|古文运动 and neoclassical 復古|复古 movements
- Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), Northern Song dynasty prose writer and historian
- Zeng Gong (1019–1083), Song dynasty writer, one of the eight giants 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 ba1 da4 jia1]
- a skill; mastery of a trade; by oneself; without outside help
- Li Bai (701-762), famous Tang Dynasty poet
- Du Fu (712-770), great Tang dynasty poet
- Su Shi (1037-1101), aka Su Dongpo 蘇東坡|苏东坡[Su1 Dong1 po1], Song dynasty writer, calligrapher and public official, one of the Three Su's 三蘇|三苏[San1 Su1] and one of the Eight Giants of Tang and Song Prose 唐宋八大家[Tang2 Song4 Ba1 Da4 jia1]
- Huang Tingjian (1045–1105), Song poet and calligrapher
- to chant; to recite; verse; song (often used in titles of classical poems); (literary) to lament; to groan; (bound form) (in poetry) the cry of certain animals and insects; (music) rapid vibrato (technique for playing the guqin 古琴[gu3 qin2]) (cf. 猱[nao2], wide vibrato)
- essence; nature; innate character; intrinsic quality